Supreme Court asks Democrats to respond by Thursday at 5 to Trump bid to challenge late-arriving Pennsylvania ballots.
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These are just the ballots (tens of thousands, maybe) that arrive after Election Day but before Friday. Trump asking court to let him intervene in (take over) pending GOP challenges to those ballots. Supreme Court previously refused to block extension or expedite case.
Penn. Sup Ct, citing its state constitution, extended the statutory received-by deadline because of pandemic, mail delays. GOP and Trump say that violates U.S. Constitution, which gives state legislature, not state courts, power to set presidential election rules.
Pre-Barrett, Scotus split 4-4, left extension intact, meaning the new justice could cast the deciding vote. But it's possible one or more conservatives now won't be willing to toss votes people cast in reliance on the extended deadline.
And there's no guarantee the late-arriving votes would make the difference in Pennsylvania, or even favor Biden. So we're a long way from Bush v. Gore.
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